Madame Blavatsky on Aethrobacy and Fakirs: She tells the truth and shames the devil.

Christian ascetics, through contemplation and self-denial, acquire powers of levitation which, though attributed to the miraculous intervention of God, are nevertheless real and the result of physiological changes in the human body. The ascetic, by seeing with the spiritual eye in the Astral Light, hearing with the spiritual ear sounds inaudible to others, lives in the Unseen Universe.

Madame Blavatsky challenges the assumption that behind the law which draws bodies toward the earth’s centre, here is not another law, equally immutable, that under certain conditions appears to counteract it.

Bodies oppositely electrified attract each other; similarly electrified, repulse each other. Until gravitation is understood to be simply magnetic attraction and repulsion, and the part played by magnetism itself in the endless correlations of forces in the ether of space, it is neither fair nor wise to deny the levitation of either fakir or table.